News from Jupiter
Poison from the Podium
November 20, 2015
We are all conditioned to jump to to the tune of the news. As you perhaps know I am buying a house in France and am about to go there to sign the first papers. My flight to Paris is booked for next Monday, and of course when I first heard what had happened there I wondered how it would affect me. But my decision […]
Onward and upward
November 8, 2015
The excitement mounts. Twenty more people have chipped in with another 1560 Euros. What makes this project so extraordinary – so different from most crowd-funding – is that I know personally almost half the 43 people on that Paypal list of contributors. It reminds me of just how many people I have built some kind of relationship with during the years that I have been […]
Dramatic Leap Towards Aspiran
November 3, 2015
MERCI TOUT LE MONDE – or, as we say in my country, THANK YOU Everything’s taking shape. We’re not there yet, but during these last few days we’ve taken a dramatic step forward. It’s been a harrowing two weeks for me. At times, when I’d heard nothing for days on end, I thought we’ll never get there. At other times I had serious doubts that […]
Skipping towards Aspiran
October 25, 2015
The road to Aspiran got shorter last night, thanks to a hefty wad of euros from a mate in the Antipodes. So now the total stands at 3,503 Euros But for those who don’t know what’s going on, please click here
Aspiration Celebration
I know, I know, I said I’d keep a daily score, but I suddenly ran into huge IT problems and it’s taken all week to clear it up. Anyway, here’s the great news. The week started with a flurry of donors and well-wishers, enough to convince me that you like what I am trying to achieve. So here’s the tally to date. Since last weekend […]
More Aspirations
October 17, 2015
This is a rather special week for me. For many years now people have been telling me how Jupiter’s Travels has changed their lives, and of course I am very proud of that. On my website I am offering you a chance to change MY life and at the same time help returning Jupiter’s Travellers to tell us the truth about what the world is […]
Aspirations
October 10, 2015
I forgot to mention last time that I was going to France for a month to look for a house, although I did talk about it on Facebook. Well, I’ve been and I’m back. The search did not start well. I’d booked and paid for two weeks in a rural place in the area where I thought I wanted the house to be, on the […]
Housekeeping and other stuff
August 9, 2015
It’s Sunday and for the moment the smoke has cleared from the valley, thanks to those 3,500 amazing fire-fighters struggling with the Rocky Fire just fifty or so miles away. But this morning it’s more about smoke and mirrors. I’m in the grip of a dilemma. I have an email list I use to send snippets of information, but it’s too long to send as […]
How I spent my summer
July 13, 2015
Almost forty years ago, on the plains of northern India, I watched in amazement as four bare-foot Indians in pale blue gowns trotted past me on a long, dusty road carrying on their shoulders the two poles of a litter. On the litter sat a young man, cross-legged, dressed in blazer and slacks, wearing an old school tie, smoking a cigarette, and gazing languidly over […]
’tis the season
May 14, 2015
A season of meetings and rallies and reunions with old friends. The Overland Expo starts on Friday in the upper reaches of Arizona and I’m working overtime to finish a film that I hope to show. Well that’s a lie – I’m not working overtime, it’s my friend Mark Ordway who’s thrashing away at the Final Cut Pro machine while I look helplessly on. May […]